Operation Glade was a Metropolitan Police Service

Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police...

 investigation into allegations of possible corruption in the police service.

It was John Boyall's role at The News of the World which first encouraged the police to start Operation Glade's investigation in to the dubious practices at the newspaper concerning the hacking of peoples mobile phones and text messages.
9 victims were said to be eligible for payouts are:

1. the former MP George Galloway,
2. the former director of the Football Association David Davies,
3. the comic actor Steve Coogan,
4. the former football executive Mick McGuire,
5. the jockey Kieren Fallon,
6. the consultant Mary-Ellen Field,
7. the personal assistant Ben Jackson,
8. the actor Leslie Ash.

See also

• Operation Weeting
  Operation Weeting
  Operation Weeting is a British police investigation that commenced on 26 January 2011, under the Specialist Crime Directorate of the Metropolitan Police Service into allegations of phone hacking in the News of the World phone hacking affair...
  
  
• Operation Motorman
  Operation Motorman (ICO investigation)
  Operation Motorman was a 2003 investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office into allegations of offences under the Data Protection Act by the British press....
  
  
• News International phone hacking scandal